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CenUSA Bioenergy, a USDA coordinated agriculture project, was funded to address the challenges of producing biofuel and other products in an environmentally sustainable way that doesn’t interfere with food production or cause adverse land use change.

Over the past five years CenUSA has generated a wealth of information across nine different objectives. This video highlights major accomplishments of each objective in the CenUSA Bioenergy project.

Video Type:

Instructional Video

Author / Producer:

Pam Porter, CenUSA, U. of Wisconsin

Acknowledgments:

This CenUSA video was produced by Pamela Porter, University of Wisconsin Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems; and Don Fleischman, University of Wisconsin Division of Information Technology.

CenUSA Bioenergy is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2011-68005-30411 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Perennial warm season grasses for use as bioenergy crops is still a future possibility, yet current opportunities exist to use perennial warm season grasses for erosion control, grazing, or forages. The CenUSA bioenergy project funded by USDA NIFA has completed extensive analysis on Switchgrass and other perennials to help foster their utility in the corn belt as bioenergy crops on marginal land. The enonomic and agronomic analysis has led to the creation of an online tool farmers can use to quantify the costs and benefits of growing switchgrass or other perennial warm season grasses.

Presenters Matt Kieffer, Juan Proano and Bernardo del Campo discuss biochar from production to end product and its uses and applications worldwide. Don't miss this presentation, you will be impressed with the enthusiasm and drive of these young bioenergy entrepreneurs. Their company ARTI can be found online at http://artichar.com/.

Presented by Dr. DK Lee, University of Illinois, who discusses his research on the role of Prairie Cordgrass and other perennial grass feedstocks in biomass production.

Beneficial bioenergy feedstock should have positive environmental aspects and not compete with food production. Our native prairie grasses can meet both of these requirements. Native prairie grasses as dedicated energy crops have been estimated by agricultural models to have greater potential profits than conventional crops on approximately 16.9 million ha within the United States...

Video Type:

Webinar

Author / Producer:

DK Lee, University of Illinois

Acknowledgments:

Bioenergy Friday Web Seminar Series, hosted by F. John Hay, is sponsored by University of Nebraska Lincoln and eXtension.

CenUSA Bioenergy is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2011-68005-30411 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Ethanol gasoline blends of 10% are ubiquitous. Yet questions and rumors abound about how ethanol blends affect small engines. This presentation will discuss how ethanol blends are different than 100% gasoline and how these changes impact small engines. In particular this presentation will cover the combustion process and how ethanol blends function in small engines. If you have ever wondered about how ethanol impacts your small engines this presentation is for you.

Video Type:

Instructional Video

Author / Producer:

Ed Brokesh, Bioeconomy Institute

Acknowledgments:

Ed Brokesh, Extension Specialist, Kansas State University, presented by the Bioeconomy Institute of Iowa State University.